beech tree

Questions about beech tree

What does beech tree mean?

beech tree means "any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions".

What is another word for beech tree?

Close synonyms include beech. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beech tree a common word?

beech tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.